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Disney Just Signed Over Its Characters To OpenAI, What Does This Mean For Creatives?

Disney’s $1.5B deal with OpenAI will let fans make AI videos with more than 200 characters, but what happens to human creativity?

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National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday

The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, but will waive admission costs on President Donald Trump's birthday

The Independent UK

What boycotting looks like 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott is marking its 70th anniversary

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Declaration of Independence’s promises ring out today as loudly as they did for Lincoln, FDR and through 249 years of US history

The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection.

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New Star Trek Story Is Spinning A Classic TV Episode To Honor Both Nichelle Nichols And Uhura In An Unexpected Way

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Watchdog group Public Citizen calls on OpenAI to scrap AI video app Sora, citing deepfake risks

The group is raising alarm about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt.

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Watchdog group Public Citizen demands OpenAI withdraw AI video app Sora over deepfake dangers

Tech advocacy group Public Citizen has demanded OpenAI withdraw Sora 2, citing safety concerns and threats to democracy from the AI video generator

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Musk could be paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat

We may be in a golden age for the super-rich – but it doesn’t feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use Snap

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Bob Brown: ‘Being an environmentalist is sensible. I like defying the growth mentality because it’s irrational’

At 80 years old, the trailblazing environmentalist on the state of activism, optimism and why he is comfortable with the concept of his own ‘perpetual annihilation’

The Guardian - AU

“It made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, might just help them a little bit”: The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement

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‘Night of the Living Dead’ helped me process the Tree of Life massacre and other real-world horrors

The Halloween season has always been special for me. It’s the time when it seems the entire country shares the fascination with the dark side of human experience that has inspired me from my youth as a fan of horror movies to my current career as a professor of English…

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Candace Owens calls out Trump for apparently ignoring the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s death

MAGA influencer Candace Owens has made a rare criticism of President Donald Trump’s administration, arguing the “full story” will never be revealed on Charlie Kirk’s death

The Independent UK

Trump nominee DOA after Nazi and racist MLK texts are revealed ahead of Senate hearing this week, Thune signals

Paul Ingrassia, 30, allegedly described himself as having a ‘Nazi streak’ in text messages that may have sunk his nomination for special counsel

The Independent UK

Salesforce’s CEO backtracks after saying Trump should send troops into San Francisco

In tech this week: The CEO of the city’s largest private employer apologizes, Amazon Web Services’ outage and OpenAI’s Sora makes waves

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Bryan Cranston thanks OpenAI for cracking down on Sora 2 deepfakes

Users of generative AI video app were able to recreate the Breaking Bad actor’s likeness without his consent, which OpenAI called ‘unintentional’

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Sora's MLK deepfakes plunge OpenAI's social media ambitions into chaos

This is what it calls "launching responsibly"?

International Business Times UK

After Martin Luther King Jr Deepfakes, Experts Ask: Who's Safe from AI Resurrection?

After OpenAI paused AI videos of Martin Luther King Jr, experts warn of a new ethical divide: only the famous can control their digital afterlives, leaving others vulnerable to AI "resurrection."

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OpenAI stops itself from generating 'disrespectful' Martin Luther King Jr. deepfakes, but this is the tip of the iceberg: 'Who gets protection from synthetic resurrection and who doesn't?'

"King's estate rightfully raised this with OpenAI, but many deceased individuals don't have well-known and well-resourced estates to represent them."

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OpenAI pauses AI-generated deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sora 2 app after ‘disrespectful’ depictions

“For me, many of the AI depictions never rose to the level of free speech,” Bernice A. King wrote on X. “They were foolishness.”

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Sora 2 under fire over disrespectful MLK content — OpenAI responded, but is it enough?

OpenAI is changing regulations on Sora 2 after the estate of MLK Jr. raises concerns over the way the deceased public figure is represented on the site.

The Guardian - US

‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts

The video app can produce realistic deepfakes of Marx shopping and MLK Jr trolling. Some say using ‘historical figures’ is the company’s way of testing the legal waters

The Independent UK

Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young describes 'dirty work' of civil rights movement in new documentary

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — answering mail, working behind the scenes to set up marches

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“Nobody Told Me That!” 34 People Share The Basic Facts They Only Just Learned

What fact did you learn at an embarrassingly late age?

The Independent UK

As the National Guard enters Memphis, memories of MLK and 1968 unrest resurface

As the National Guard enters Memphis, some longtime residents are recalling the thousands sent there in 1968

International Business Times UK

OpenAI Tightens Sora Rules on Dead-Celeb Clips — CAA Says Creators' Rights Are Still Under Threat

After tightening confused policies on using deceased celebrities (like Michael Jackson) and major franchise characters, OpenAI's Sora drew fire from Hollywood.

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